. ‎Santa was very cross. It was Christmas Eve and NOTHING was going right. Mrs Claus had burned all the cookies. The elves were complaining about no... getting paid for the overtime they had worked while making the toys. The reindeer had been drinking all afternoon and were dead drunk. To make matters worse, they had taken the sleigh out for a spin earlier in the day and had crashed it into a tree. Santa was furious. “I can’t believe it! I’ve got to deliver millions of presents all over the world. I decided I could walk, then almost reconsidered it when I tried but made my way towards the wall that was the door anyway.When the wall started to open as I had commanded, Elsie almost knocked me off my feet, trying to back me away so she could defend us. But I only had to smile at her and hold out my hand for her to realize I was taking her out of there.I realized my hand was shaking from my shivering when she took it. I decided the first order of business was to get dry. I also added getting. The house was still and quiet, and no one for company other than my two cats. After greeting them, I left them to do their own thing whilst I walked upstairs towards the bathroom to take a shower. Wearing a black pinstripe skirt suit, I slowly started to undress myself. After taking off my jacket, I moved my hands towards the zip on my skirt and allowed it to fall slowly to the floor, before stepping over it. Next, I unbuttoned the white blouse I was wearing, slowly undoing one button at a time. Nothing really.His neighbors often came over to swim in his pool and Paul thought nothing of it.. until now. Amanda dropped her towel near a pool side chair and stepped lightly to the edge. She looked across the pool and caught Paul staring at her. He could swear she stood there extra long before she dove in with hardly a splash. Paul watched her sleek tanned body glide full length under water and surface just to the left of where he was laying.As she shook the water from her hair he remembered.